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     many in districts generally easy of access and 
     
     not more than twenty-four hours’ journey from 
     
     New York or Boston. Moose and deer killed 
     
     in the season, 1928-29, numbered 1,930 and 
     
     10,531 respectively, and despite the heavy toll 
     
     annually taken plentiful supplies of these 
     
     animals will be assured through the establish- 
     
     ment of game refuges—640 square miles thus 
     
     far in New Brunswick, and 400 square miles in 
     
     Nova Scotia—where game and_ fur-bearing 
     
     animals, breeding unmolested, serve to pe-etook 
     
     the surrounding district. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Prince Edward Island lacks both moose and 
     
     deer, but offers excellent bird-shooting by 
     
     virtue of its geese, brant, duck, woodcock, 
     
     pleyem and snipe, with which game both Nova 
     
     Scotia and New Brunswick are also well sup- 
     
     plied. Along the shores of the Maritimes 
     
     various species of geese and duck are particu- 
     
     larly numerous, the latter being found also on 
     
     the lakes and rivers in most districts. The 
     
     woodcock and the noted snipe grounds of the 
     
     Tantramar marshes are yearly attracting greater 
     
     numbers of non-residents. Partridges, however, 
     
     are still under protection, except in Prince Edward 
     
     Island, where there is an open season biennially. — 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fishing.—As to the hunter, so to the angler 
     
     are New Brunwick and Nova Scotia of special 
     
     interest. For there, judging from the reputation 
     
     accorded it, fights best that brilliant and 
     
     vivacious fish, the Atlantic silver salmon. Such 
     
     salmon rivers as the Restigouche in New Bruns- 
     
     wick and the Margaree in Nova Scotia are 
     
     known far and wide. But equally excellent in 
     
     their respective spheres are the waters for trout, 
     
     land-locked salmon, sea-trout, bass, togue (lake 
     
     trout) and other varieties, not forgetting the 
     
     ponderous tuna and swordfish which provide 
     
     excellent sport in coastal waters. 
     
    
   
   
    
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